Housing Action Trust Community Development Policies

ISBN-13: 9783838352398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 184 str.

Alan Rust-Ryan

Opis

As finite-life organisations, Housing Action Trusts (HATs) offer a unique opportunity for the analysis of Conservative urban policy. They were established in 1988 by the Conservative government as the cutting edge of urban policy. By the time the first HAT was established in Hull in 1991, the Conservative government had adopted a much more holistic and welfarist attitude to urban regeneration. Community involvement was seen to facilitate the regeneration process, an approach that led HATs to incorporate a range of social and economic policies into their development programmes. Although only six HATs were established, these employed a wide range of community development models, leading to varying success. An analysis of the different approaches offers valuable lessons for community development policy. The main lesson is that sustainability can only be achieved if organisations adopt a genuine participatory, bottom- up approach to community development.

O autorze

Dr Alan Rust-Ryan spent over 10 years working as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Lincoln. After being awarded his PhD in 2006 he worked as Senior Researcher at the specialist housing research company Fordham Research. In 2010 he became co- founding director of the leading social research company RRR Consultancy.